With 2020 on the horizon, JPT editors put together our Top 10 list of technologies and ideas to keep an eye on in the coming year.
Trent Jacobs and Steve Rassenfoss cover emerging technology for the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), SPE's flagship publication. With SPE Talks Tech, our writers debate and discuss the hottest topics in the technical arena of the oil and gas industry.
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 2020 Technology Watch List
Subject Matter Experts (SME)
Refracs driven by frac hit defense – pre-loading is popular, too
Black gunk – frac fluid downsides
Split fracturing – not new, but renewed interest
Gas surges
Texas Two-Step – zipper frac within a zipper frac?
Don't call it AI
Fracture connections – DFIT response 1,000ft away
BOPs and the Macondo Anniversary
A new pressure diagnostic from Devon?
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